Brian D

Some new changes I'd like to see is... Snow/ Winter stm W Ice/ Ice stm W Wind chill/ Svr wind chill W Heat/Svr heat W Travel alert and warning for the more dangerous conditions. Basically just change from advisory to warning for some, drop others, and tweek triggers. Advisory is a softball term for much of what is really just ordinary weather for a region. Besides, travel alerts are really just shifting from the advisories to that anyway, if they would do that again. And when a warning is issued, people will really take notice. Things getting serious.

I took the survey for this, and I'm ok with no advisories. People are pretty used to the weather for their area. 2-3 of snow is just normal around here, but not down south. Use the word "Warning" to get their attention to something very impactful for the region, like dense fog, ice/ice storm, wind/high wind, small craft/gale/storm, winter storm, frost/freeze, flood/flash flood. If advisories are gone, then tweek the triggers for warning down slightly, if necessary. The one advisory or alert I would like to see used is the travel one. Alerting those who are on the road or going to be on the road to road conditions is a good idea. So travel alerts are ok in my book.

Yep, 7/13/95. Tied with 7/14/36 as the all time high at that station. BTW in 5/31/34 it was 107. Early June heat up here got nothing on that one. That region has a topo of bluffs and valleys, so very possible.

Records 6/4 & 6/5 Duluth 93 (90 1968); 94 (88 1925/1988) I-Falls 98 (92 1988); 91 2nd to 94 1988 Brainerd 100 (89 1988); 96 (92 1952) Hibbing 95 (88 1988); 94 (90 1988) Ashland 93 (92 1968); 94 (93 1988) Grand Forks 103 (96 1961); 99 (95 1988) Fargo 102 (95 1959); 98 (95 1939) Impressive stuff last couple days. More near record to record heat possible tomorrow as well. Staying above normal well into next week, so top 5 heat still possible.

My great big AC just a mile away keeps me cool. For now at least. Inland has been in the low 90's the last 2 days with temps 10-15 degrees cooler here by the Lake. With the Lake still pretty cold, just like the ocean sea breezes of the afternoon, we get that here too until the water warms up later in July. Then AC is needed off and on.

Here's the Spring chart for our region with a look at the 3 months that comprise it. Warm March to a near avg April to a cool May.

Well, prelim May data is in, and looks like another cool May for the region this year.

Using NOAA data at 61-90, 71-00, 81-10, and 91-20 norms for the south central US for the avg anomaly (in K) for Jan-Apr. () is the difference from previous norm. 61-90: 0.221 71-00: -0.091 (0.312) 81-10: -0.374 (0.283) 91-20: -0.535 (0.161) (0.756 from 61-90) Maps above are in F, so can't compare these with those necessarily, as F uses smaller units compared to K/C units (which are the same size). Have to use lat/long here, but basically its CO, KS, OK, NM, and TX. I already have data downloaded (1981-2010 base) for 7 sections of the US from a while ago, so I plugged in the coordinates I have for this section. When using lat/long, the area is bigger in the south, than the north areas because of the arc of the Earth. Unfortunately, I do pick up some of MX and CA in those sections, but it's all good. https://psl.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/data/testdap/timeseries.pl Hope this helps.

Or we could use these maps. 1988 was much drier overall. The scales are a little different, but stills shows the big difference.

Looks like Devil's Lake, and Moorehead hit 102 as well. GF down to 101.

I looked at some drought index (KBDI) values for some stations, and they are as much as twice as high as they were in 1988. That's definitely allowing temps to rise a bit more. Impressive heat indeed. 1988 had lots of moments in the spotlight within the records around here.

Quick look at temps around the E ND/NW MN region.

Mid 70's here by the Lake with mid 80's inland. TY Big Water!

Yep, the perfect conditions for high temps too develop. D0-D1 into the western half MN helping the heat build there as well.

If Madison stays there, that's tied for 4th. It was 86 last year, tied for 5th.

Just looking at summer a little more closely with my modelling method shows quite a variable summer with temps, and plenty of rain/thunder chances. Can't talk to the svr part for everyone, but the chances are there, especially my way. Edit: Added map for my thinking.

Wonder how the crops will fair, going from freezing temps up to blowtorch wx. Red River Valley looking at 100 degree weather.

2 day record heat wave looks to be rivaling that of 1988, but 1988 was a bit longer in duration. That lasted about a week. And I get to be a little cooler than the rest near the Lake. Works for me! Temps will still be up there well into next week, tho, with 80's still holding strong away from the Lake.

Near record to record heat up my way this weekend. Highs in the upper 80's to low 90's expected. Sweatin time coming early this year.

More record lows this morning with temps being very similar to yesterday morning. Impressive 2 day run on cold mornings. These last 3 days have been running -10 to -20 below normal putting the smackdown on the monthly avg. Should end up around 1.0 - 1.5 tho after being in the 3 range.

Lots of cold this morning. Many records broken.

Record lows for May 28 are around mid - upper 20's for NE MN, so yeah, could be some serious smashing in the a.m.. Ugly stuff. From suntan lotion to "throw another log on the fire" LOL!

Colder than me this time of year when I'm below normal. Rather impressive indeed.

High of 82 yesterday. Canadian air flowing in today with a high around 60 this afternoon. Normal late May wx, but still a little cooler than avg. Chilly end to May with frost advisories for the next couple a.m.'s.

It's in the NOWdata at the NWS Duluth site. Grand Portage:Calendar summaries: Snowfall: Daily max https://w2.weather.gov/climate/xmacis.php?wfo=dlh EDIT: Cli-mate MRCC also has that data. Just looked it up there. But the temps were logged as no cooler than 40, so someone made a huge typo. LOL